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BAZILE LOUINEAU, OF SABLES DOLONN ES, FRANCE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DOMINOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,703, dated October14, 1873; application filed February 28, 1873.

Toall whom it may concern:

Be lit known that I, BAZILE LOUINEAU, of Sables dOlonnes, in thedepartment oi" Vendee and Republic of France, have invented a certainImprovement in Tablets or Dominoes for the Game of Dominoes, of whichthe following is a speciiication:

My invention relates to the combination of dots lor points of differentcolors upon each tablet or domino, in such a manner that the number oftablets and of points or dots in a game of dominoes will be increased.

The accompanying sheet of drawing shows in top-plan view a series oftablets embodying my invention, and constituting a game of dominoes.

The tablets or dominoes may be manufactured of bone, ivory, metal inimitation of silver, or of other suitable material. The face of thetablets is colored white, the back of a darker color. They have a lengthof about two inches by a breadth of about one inch.

The collection of thirty-six tablets may be inclosed in a box withsliding cover, and thus delivered to commerce.

It will be seen that each'of the tablets has two compartments separatedby a blue and a red line, leaving white between them, and thusw formingthe three French national colors, blue, white, and red 5 but differentcolors might be similarly juxtaposed. Each of the compartments hasl thespots, points, or marks which appear upon the tablets of the ordinarygame of dominoes, but with this diii'erence, that the ordinary tabletsare only twenty-eight in num ber, and have black spots or points,whereas those the subject of my invention are thirtysix in number, andhave points or spots of varied colors.

The Ordin ary game of dominoes has one hundred and sixtyeight spots orpoints. This has two hundred and fty-two. In blue there are six acespots or points, six dence-points, six points three, six points four,six points. ve, and six points six. In red there are six acepoints, sixpoints two, six points three, six points four, six points ve, and sixpoints six.

What I claim as my invention is The improved domino or tablet, the dotson each half of the face of the said tablet being marked in twodifferent colors, substantially as herein described.

' BAZILE LOUINEAU.

Witnesses:

ARMAND SAvURIT OLUDRIN, AUGUTH SUTINETTE.

